CiampinoCiampino is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio,
Italy. It was a frazione of Marino until 1974, when it became a
comune; it obtained the city status (being therefore officially known
as Città di Ciampino) in 2004 by presidential decree.

Contents

1 Overview
2 Climate
3 External links
4 References

Overview[edit]
It is best known for the local "Giovan Battista Pastine" International
Airport, best known as
RomeRome Ciampino, a military airport which also
hosts several civil flights, especially from low-cost companies such
as Ryanair. The city is named after Giovanni Giustino Ciampini, a
religious, scientist and archaeologist who lived here in the 17th
century. It grew from 5,000 inhabitants in 1951 to 28,000 in 1971.
Today, the city has circa 37,000 inhabitants.
Climate[edit]
According to the
Köppen Climate ClassificationKöppen Climate Classification system,
CiampinoCiampino has a
warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csa" on climate
maps.[1] The city's climate is basically Mediterranean type, but there
are rare continental peaks, especially in winter. The autumn and
spring seasons are particularly rainy and with mild temperatures. The
winters, which are also characterized by discrete rainfall,
alternating periods relatively mild to others that have cold
conditions very prominent, especially in the presence of high pressure
with cold winds from the eastern or northern states that the
phenomenon of temperature inversion are often the temperatures fall
below 0 °C (32 °F), with minimum down to −5 °C
(23 °F), and occasionally even lower. Snow is a very rare
phenomenon: they are mostly timid sleet or downpour of graupel. The
summer is very hot, humid and potentially drought. In general, the
weather is often windy, with a prevalence of northerly winds, such as
the north wind and the north-east, and west, as the mistral, the
south-west and the west wind, the latter so called because from the
area to the west that is the vast plain of the Roman stretching right
in front of Ciampino. The annual rainfall ranging around 800
millimetres (31 in)
CiampinoCiampino lying at the foot of the northern
slopes of the Alban Hills where there is a phenomenon called
orographic lift, which is the reduction of water vapor in the clouds
as the ground rises. Therefore, the increased rainfall will have on
the foothills of the hills, facing the sea, towards the south-west,
and the younger to the north. In the summer, in conditions of intense
heat waves particularly, the temperature can reach up to 40 °C
(104 °F).
External links[edit]
Media related to
CiampinoCiampino at Wikimedia Commons
References[edit]